Editing Hans-Georg Gadamer (section)

===Family and early life===
Gadamer was born in [[Marburg]], [[German Empire|Germany]],{{sfn|Grondin|2003|p=12}} the son of Johannes Gadamer (1867–1928),{{sfn|Grondin|2003|pp=26, 33}} a pharmaceutical [[chemistry]] professor who later also served as the [[Rector (academia)|rector]] of the [[University of Marburg]]. He was raised a Protestant Christian.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gadamer|first1=Hans-Georg|title=The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays|date=1986|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521339537|page=35|url=http://timothyquigley.net/ipa/gadamer-rb.pdf|access-date=16 January 2018|quote=As a Protestant, I have always found especially significant the controversy over the Last Supper, which raged in the Protestant Church, particularly between Luther and Zwingli.}}</ref> Gadamer resisted his father's urging to take up the [[natural sciences]] and became more and more interested in the [[humanities]]. His mother, Emma Karoline Johanna Gewiese (1869–1904) died of [[diabetes]] while Hans-Georg was four years old, and he later noted that this may have had an effect on his decision not to pursue scientific studies. [[Jean Grondin]] describes Gadamer as finding in his mother "a poetic and almost religious counterpart to the iron fist of his father".{{sfn|Grondin|2003|p=21}} Gadamer did not serve during [[World War I]] for reasons of ill health{{sfn|Grondin|2003|p=45}} and similarly was exempted from serving during [[World War II]] due to [[polio]].{{sfn|Grondin|2003|p=46}}